I recall asking, when I received this list of
appointments: "Is this all?"

No, it was not all; he had had guests in for
luncheon and he had completed on that day
his important message to the extraordinary
session of Congress which he had called to
meet on May 20th. This was a document of
some 3,500 words and he had written it himself
on his typewriter. It must not be forgotten,
in thinking of the President's task at Paris, that
he was constantly required to face problems
and make decisions regarding affairs at home;
some of them requiring much time and thought.

Besides all of these things he was called
upon as no other man of any nation at the
Conference was called upon--almost forced--
to attend public functions of various sorts,
to make speeches, to visit neighbouring coun-
tries; and he was often bitterly censured be-
cause he did not do more of this, did not visit
more frequently the devastated districts of
France, did not review this parade, or accept
that exhausting hospitality. How he stood
up to those stupendous responsibilities, those
innumerable tasks, day after day, month
after month, is a marvel to those who were
there and really knew what was going on.

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